Its going to be 2am, and I'm supposed to sleep an hour ago, BUT i was reading the straits times, and I HAVE TO VENT THIS OUT!!!!!! Lets read some headlines,
"How to keep your job"
"Life in a poly - a survival guide" - Like the girl who thought a diploma was a breeze - until she failed all her subjects.
Huh? I always seem to find pple SO STRESSED OUT with things not even WORTH worrying. I;ve always thought of very stressed pple as a rare breed...BUT from NUMEROUS small incidents such as the small quarrel i had my mom about pple going to bangkok. (My younger sis's friends went to Bangkok after the tsunami, and my mom, was sooo disgusted that her friends' moms actually allow them to go to thailand. And probably cos of lack of sleep from driving around eating bah kut teh with my bros, i was slightly irritated, so i said, "I would go to bangkok" And so my mom erupted saying something about tsunami, and i no feelings, and me being stupid and crazy.)
I've come to believe that S'poreans are TRUELY paranoid stressed pple, budden i've always known that and i've always thought that paranoia is restricted to old pple. SO i thought nothing of that after. BUT I WAS PROVED WRONG! In 3 independent conversations with friends, i told them of my dream to buy a house next to the beach blah blah blah. And 3 SEPERATE individuals went "orh...later tsunami." I mean, this is about the same as me wanting to move to the uppermost floor of THe Pinnicle @ Duxton, and some friends saying..."wah...later 747 come knocking on ur door!"
Yup...exactly. WAT THE FUCK comes to mind. And Sept 11 did not even kill ONE S'porean!!!
BUt FRANKLY, i think all these stupid and unfounded paranoia is caused by our government. AND NO, i'm not being one of those uncles that goes on saying, "Nah beh! Chee bye gahmen! Make everything so expensive! EVEN KWAY BECOME SO EX! Kaoz..."
SO NO! I'm being serious. Things that our gahmen do, like armed patrols in airports, and, random 6-men armed patrols all over the island. And even worse...ALL THAT CONSTANT WARNINGS or dunno wat about...oooh there IS terrorism in S'pore, they will strike anytime anywhere. We must be on our guard. I mean, HOW IN THE HELL can 6 men, armed with SUB-machine guns stop a speeding truck with explosives? OR EVEN BETTER. WAt can they do to stop a bomb left in a bin? NOTHING!! U might as well ask them to get on their knees and pray that they have bigger bullets in their guns, or that they will know how to defuse a bomb in 2 seconds. AND LOOK HOW FAR PRAYING HAS GOT US!! And all that propanganda about terrorism. Must somebody keep making a statement to remind us there are terrorists among us every few mths? YES WE ALREADY KNOW! So, wat is the patrols for than? What benefit does the gahmen get from reminding us every now and than that we are not safe in our own homes? huH? TO SPREAD PARANOIA! Why u say? Cos paranoid pple listen to authority, paranoid pple don't ask too much questions, and paranoid pple are as easy to handle as sheep. Don't believe? Will it be easier to believe if i point a gun at u? YES it is so easy to believe huh?
But don't get me wrong, i also think security is important. I think we should spend more on sniffer dogs, more magnetic thingys, more x-ray stuff, more custom officers, CCTV blah blah blah. Cos this, I THINK combat terrorism. I dunno much about terrorism stuff, so yes, u all can say i talking cock. BUT I DO KNOW that buying apache helicopters, buying new tanks, buying new fighter planes can't stop an idiot blowing himself up in orchard road. And i'm sure that instead of buying more tanks and weapons to show off, the money can be spent on getting the circle line built even faster! Or we can shut all those disabled pple up by buying new ultra low buses!! BUT nooooo, i guess we are paranoid, and if PM say we need AH-64D Longbow Apache to shoot at terrorists, THAN, he MUST be right.
And so, comes to the question, WHY ARE S'POREANS' SO FUCKING PARANOID?!!?!? Like the SARS crisis. Our health service did a FANTASTIC job i have to say, and no, i dun think the health authorities were not being paranoid by screening pple months after the epidemic. But the SARS crisis is a DAMN good example of the gahmen using paranoia to get pple to do as they say. When the than PM Goh bow to some the Thai president instead of shaking his hands, i got taxi uncles saying. "WAh kaoz, even PM Goh scared leh!!! i think i taking off tmr" It sure as hell worked on my mom! I think she grounded my little sis for a month. BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT SARS IS USELESS?! In the infectious point of view. yes i know, pple did kenah and die. But SARS have a 20% chance of infection. (I remembering these figues from my lecture last yr, so definately not very accurate.) 20% chance! That means, if someone with SARS sneeze INTO your face, u got a 20% chance of OBTAINING the virus. And of the unlucky 20% who gets the virus, only 30% actually develop the disease. I mean, u might have been infected with SARS virus liaoz, and survived it through without knowing it.
Yes, its easy to say this now after everything is over. BUT for those of u that were home during the SARS period, I AM SURE, most of u think SARS was as contagious as flu or something.
Paranoid? There's NOTHING to get paranoid about! Be aware of watever dangers there are, and CARRY ON! Paranoia is for pple who have done EVIL DEEDS! EVIL EVIL DEEDS like lying to his pple that he saw and is satisfied with evidences that showed that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
